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Preston Auto Group

1500 Wilmington Rd.
New Castle, PA 16105

  • Sales: (866) 654-6544
  • Service: (866) 656-3815

Preston and the Community


Buy Local, Buy Preston
When you buy from the Preston Auto Group, you are helping and investing in our local community! Never has it ever been so important to invest in our community. It helps to rest assured that when you buy from Prestons, a large portion of the money you spend gets reinvested back into our area through taxes, jobs, and charities. Preston proudly employs over 350 area residents, that's several of your family, friends, and neighbors. Not to mention the fact that we sponsors with some of the area's and nation's most reputable charities such as the Salvation Army, United Way, and Toys for Tots. Check out our full list of charitable partners to the right.

Preston Treasures for Children

Every holiday season Joanne Preston can be seen running around New Castle decorating the Preston Auto dealerships, putting up Christmas lights galore at her house, or heading Preston Auto's efforts in Salvation Army's Treasures for Children campaign. Since 1990, Joanne Preston and the Preston Auto Group have partnered with the Salvation Army in an effort to bring Christmas joy to local area children in need.

This year Preston Auto with the support of other local organizations such as Giant Eagle, First Merit Banks, First National Bank, First Baptist Church, St. Vitus, and Rebecca's Hair Salon were able to provide gifts for over 500 children in the New Castle area! "We are so thankful and blessed to have the support of so many local organizations," says Joanne Preston. She goes on to say "It is wonderful to see our community rally around such a wonderful cause!"

Joanne Preston is the wife of Bob Preston, owner of the Preston Auto Group, and heads Preston's charitable and philanthropic efforts. Joanne also sits on the board of the New Castle YMCA and United Way along with running the Treasures for Children campaign. This year Bob and Joanne personally purchased over 100 gifts for chldren, enough to fill the entire bed of a pickup truck!

Also, several Preston Motors employees were involved in giving gifts to Salvation Army's Treasure for Children Campaign. For example, internet sales person and local youth minister Mason Angelo purchased a set of mechanical pencils, a calculator, and some toy cars for a young boy. Mason said, "As a local youth minister, it's a blessing and an honor to be employed by a company, such as Preston Auto, that is so focused on giving back to the community.  This community has a great need and I'm glad to see local companies stand up and take an action to help meet that need."


Kevin Preston, son of Bob and Joanne and Sales Manager at Preston Motors says, "My parents pride themselves on our company serving and giving back to our local community. It's such a good and rewarding cause to be able to bring some additional Christmas joy to children in our community."


Preston Toyota Pirates Ticket Giveaway
Preston Toyota has given away 8 pirates tickets in prizes so far!


 
July 2010
Preston Toyota sponsored a Pittsburgh Pirate Ticket Giveaway on their Facebook Page, giving their community the chance to snag Two tickets to see the Buccos by answering a trivia question correctly!  Congratulations to the winner!



Preston Chambers YMCA Y-Zone
Robert L. Preston III and his wife Joanne C. Preston, owners of the Preston Auto Group, led the capital campaign for the New Castle Community YMCA Y-Zone. In fact the Preston Auto Group donated $600,000 into this dream and into our community to make the Y-Zone a reality. This sports facility and campus is complete with an indoor soccer field, two regulation basketball courts, fitness and wellness room, batting cage, and two tournament-rated volleyball courts. The sportszone serves the western PA area, which includes Sharon, Beaver Valley, Pittsburgh, Butler, Meadville, and Cranberry areas. The Y-Zone provides a means for under privileged area youth to not only stay fit, but also out of trouble. The Preston Auto Group has donated over 50 memberships to such youths.

Preston Community Events

September 2010
Preston Toyota sponsored the Sportsmen's Dinner at First Baptist Church for the 3rd consecutive year. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The Sportsmen's Dinner had an amazing 350+ people attend the event, the most ever. The event took place at First Baptist Church in New Castle, PA. The night was started out with a home cooked meal to feed everyone and was complete with salad, pasta, and sausage links and topped off with homemade pies. Then the countless hunting sessions started: reloading seminar, bear hunting seminar from the game commission, lime disease awareness, turkey hunting, and Jim King spoke regarding spending time outdoors with children. Lastly, former Atlanta Braves 1st baseman Sid Bream was the guest speaker, he spoke about his time in the major leagues, his faith, and sliding into home beating our Pittsburgh Pirates in the '94 NLCS.

July 2010

The Preston Scion New Castle Block Party had an amazing 700+ people attend the event. The night was great! It started out with a cookout to feed everyone and games and entertainment for the children, then were the main attractions? the live performances. Things were kicked off with a bang, as local band Whetstone grabbed the crowd's attention. Following that, former Steeler offensive lineman turned Steeler radio personality Craig Wolfley inspired the audience with his edge of the seat stories about his time as an NFL player. Lastly, the night concluded with the main attraction, nationally reknowned Christian rapper Flame. Flame rapped masterfully to the beat and even did one song acapella. He had the crowd going crazy as they were on their feet the entire night, jumping and dancing around. Flame had the crowd involved, helping him with lyrics and even brought some fans on stage as background dancers. The night literally ended with a bang, as a firework show was put on by Pyrotecnico. The show was absolutely amazing, they even taped it for sales pitches in the future.

December 2009


Joanne Preston and Preston Auto were a driving force behind the Salvation Army Treasures for Children campaign in New Castle, PA and Boardman, OH which provided Christmas gifts for children in our local community. Preston Auto and the Salvation Army have partnered in this campaign and been helping our local community for over 20 years!!

April 2009

Also Preston Scion partnered with the Mill Street Grille in downtown New Castle, PA to host the Sharon, PA Butler, PA Boardman, OH Pittsburgh, PA and Youngstown OH areas in a great weekend of entertainment including Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers along with Last Comic Standing Winner Alonzo Bodden. The event was hosted in the newly opened Stage 3, part of Mill Street's beautiful Riverplex facility.

March 2009

Preston Scion hosted to local community events including a Remedy Drive concert at the First Baptist Church in New Castle, PA in an effort to bring local churches together in fellowship. The concert raised money for Mandue City Baptist Church in the Philippines, a sister church of First Baptist.



Preston Charitable Contributions
M.S.- Monster Stomp
Lawrence County Women's Crisis Shelter
Union Lion's Club
New Castle Junior Women's Club
United Way
Geneva College Baseball
American Cancer Society
Knights of Columbus
Lawrence County Chamber of Commerce
Salvation Army
Masonic Learning Center
Big Brother/Big Sister
Lawrence County Historical Society
Pittsburgh Foundation
Neshannock Lion's Club
Villa Maria Educational Center
Slipper Rock University Performing Arts
Neshannock Volunteer Fire Department
New Castle Christian Academy
Par for the Cure
New Castle Rotary
Edinboro University
Annual New Castle Walk and Run to Help Children with Dyslexia